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More news from the desk of Barnard Public Safety, as residents of BC dorms just received an email announcing that Public Safety officers will be doing routine rounds throughout residence halls a few times a day. Officers will also be making sure that everyone who’s in the building is supposed to be there, and so it’s now “important that all residential students serve as an escort whenever you have a guest in the building.”
Bwog just got off the phone with Public Safety, who said that the change isn’t a repsonse to any specific incident, and that Columbia “pretty much does the same thing already.”
Full email after the jump.
Residential Life & Housing would like to inform all residence hall students
that beginning tonight, uniformed Public Safety Officers will begin doing
rounds on individual floors of our residence halls a few times each day. We
welcome the Public Safety staff into our residential community and hope that
you will feel comfortable to introduce yourself to the Officers if you see
them on your floor.
Should you need to call Public Safety for assistance, one of the Officers
will then be dispatched to you, and they will also keep Residential Life
staff informed of any problems or concerns they encounter. It is important
that all residential students serve as an escort whenever you have a guest
in the building. If Public Safety Officers come upon someone who may not be
a student, they will ask clarify who the individual is and where they
belong.
All members of our community are responsible for helping to maintain safety
at all times. We encourage you to contact Public Safety if you need
assistance, notice anything in the residence halls that is not as it should
be, or if you encounter a situation of concern to you. Residential Life
staff are also available to assist, and welcome your calls.
Thanks!
Residential Life & Housing
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@Carman I just saw public safety on my floor in Carman last night. The public safety officer came in and started talking to my RA.
I hope this isn’t going to start a trend of public safety patrolling our dorms too. It’s bad enough that they are doing it at Barnard.
@Equally Confused My bad, I was confused. I should have mentioned I meant there was no email about the stabbing (different article) or for that matter the attempted robbery until 3 days after it occured.
@i think some of you are confused. this is at barnard, not columbia, explaining why you have not received an email…
@C. Maxwell Will protect all.
@oh yeah McNulty can move into my room anytime…
@ooooh me first!
@Equally Confused oh yeah…and still nothing via email from Public Safety. I’m glad we have you Bwog: to protect and to serve.
@Equally Confused Just exactly what characterizes someone who “looks like they don’t belong” in our dorms? Also, presuming these people are identifiable inside the dorms, how did they get past the door in the first place?
I guess the policy for guests make sense but why does it have to be such a tedious ordeal to get a guest pass in the first place? You can either sign someone in and out each and every time or get a guest pass which each security officer treats differently and ends up being just as impractical as the other system.
@hmm well, to start with, anyone with a penis.
@??? this is bizarre. did some specific problem bring this about or is it just out of the blue?
@concerned cc student agreed. this is absolutely ridiculous. contrary to whatever public safety may believe, this kind of behavior perpetuates an atmosphere of fear and mistrust. i personally did not come to college to experience a police state.
this needs to stop.
@wow This is totally idiotic. As usual, Public Safety has it wrong. It’s not students that need to be monitored and scrutinized, it’s the fucking thugs on the streets. Idiots. What are these people going to do besides break parties up and make life less fun?
@I have never seen a CPS officer in a residence hall above the ground floor